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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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ṭāʔilaẗ طائِلة 
ID … • Sw – • BP … • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√ṬWL 
n.f. 
1 might, power, force; 2 vengeance, revenge, retribution, retaliation – WehrCowan1979. 
▪ Grammatically a PA I f., lit. *‘(s.th.) reaching far’, from ↗ṭāla B, vb. I, ‘to reach, catch, get hold of; (fig.) to have power over’, fig. use of ↗ṭāla A, ‘to be(come) long, extend, stretch out’.
▪ [v2] ‘vengeance, revenge, retribution, retaliation’, in ClassAr also †‘enmity, rancour’ : obviously fig. use, but semantics not satisfactorily clear; prob. a specialisation of [v1]. 
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↗ṭāla. 
↗ṭāla. 
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► waqaʕa taḥta ṭāʔilaẗ al-qānūn, expr., to be subject to punishment by law;
taḥta ṭāʔilaẗ al-mawt, expr., under penalty of death

 For other values of the root, cf. ↗ṭāla, ↗ṭawl, ↗ṭūl, ↗ṭuwwal, ↗ṭuwālaẗ, ↗ṭāwilaẗ, and (for the general picture) ↗ṬWL. 
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